Security First Corp. Assigned Patent

Security First Corp., Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,031,679) developed by O’Hare, Mark S., Coto De Caza, CA, and Orsini, Rick L., Flower Mound, TX, for a “gateway for cloud-based secure storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The systems and methods disclosed herein transparently provide an improved scalable cloud-based dynamically adjustable or configurable storage volume. In one aspect, a gateway provides a dynamically or configurably adjustable storage volume, including a local cache. The storage volume may be transparently adjusted for the amount of data that needs to be stored using available local or cloud-based storage. The gateway may use caching techniques and block clustering to provide gains in access latency compared to existing gateway systems, while providing scalable off-premises storage.”

The patent application was filed on November 23, 2015 (14/949,370).